The 3D Vision Live (Beta) Portal is Now Streaming 3D with Silverlight

Nvidia has launched its 3D Vision Live portal in Beta as it is modern nowadays with the portal streaming online stereoscopic 3D videos using Microsoft’s Silverlight for owners of 3D Vision equipped desktop or mobile computers. The portal already has about 20 video clips available in 3D for watching online and the list will probably continue to be expanded, so you should go and take a look, although you’ve probably seen some of the videos already featured here on the blog for download. There is even a 3D trailer for the Resident Evil Afterlife movie, so head on to take a look.

i have a feeling the 3d movie trailer for resident evil will look better than the movie theater version. i saw avatar in 3d and liked the movie except i thought the 3d was a gimmick and did not work well. nvidia 3d vision on the other hand is incredible.

i have tried silverlight before on my pc for the nascar 3d streaming some time ago. i think silverlight made my monitor get a strange annoying tint on it, it seemed to have dimmed the whole screen and made it more blue/ purple. i uninstalled silverlight and the problem went away. i have an alienware aw2310 monitor. any suggestions on what i did wrong or how to get silverlight to work properly would be appreciated. i could call alienware/ dell however that is like asking a cheeseburger to help you write a resume.

The site works great for me. I do find it annoying how whenever Silverlight is present on a page the 3d vision kicks in and i’m stuck on fullbrite till i run the test app. Additionally it ditches aero and fails to put it back on afterward. I have to restart the windows manager service afterwards to get it back..

Used at first Firefox… thanks for the Hint Druid! ; ) Now with IE it works for me too. And yes, a really nasty “Brain-Sucking” Failure when finishing my 3D Streaming and closing windows. Ouch! Only a restart helped. Well, it’s BETA, will sure get better. Very nice to have more 3D Videos now at a Click! I enjoyed it very much!

Works great for me. I’m using internet explorer and my video card is a gtx 480.

I am wondering though is this site legit? Seems strange NVIDIA would include video of women in bikinis washing cars. I don’t object to this content. Just seems odd… Makes me wonder if this isn’t an official NVIDIA site…

This is strange…
When I go to http://www.3dvisionlive.com, it shows the message “please wait while we test your system blabla” for just a second or so, then my screen goes black and never comes back.
Unless I press alt+f4, that brings me back to my desktop.

The same thing happens in both IE8 and FF 3.6.6.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

Im running Win7 x64 on a GF 9800GTX+ and a Samsung 2233RZ.

And yes, 3D Vision is active and works in games and in “Stereoscopic Player”.

I can’t figure out how to get it to show in 3D — I’m just getting two side by side streams. 3D itself works fine in other apps but I can’t figure out a way to get Silverlight to merge into a full screen 3d image.

Bob Frankston, check some of the advice mentioned above. MAke sure you have the latest 3D Vision drivers installed, you’ve updated the Silverlight plugin to the latest version, disable SLI if you have two or more video cards, open the website through Internet Explorer. Although with the latest drivers I don’t have trouble using Firefox anymore or the flickering after closing the browser and apparently even with SLI it works well enough.

The quality you see might not be so good as it is being determined in realtime, because of the video being streamed, so if you have a slower connection speed you’ll see bad quality (around 600 Kbps for the minimum) and if you manage to get around 3.5-4 Megabits transfer speed you should be able to get a decent quality with 720p resolution in stereo 3D (decent, not perfect). There is an indicator for that at the rightmost part of the player, so you can check your current speed for the streaming. And right before that speed indicator there is a button for switching to full screen mode, but you should not do it if you don’t have a good connection speed as the quality will be disappointing in fullscreen mode with low bitrate.